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Killing took place in New York, but Nicaragua hosts trial

In an exceedingly rare legal proceeding, the trial of former Binghamton University student Orlando Tercero in the 2018 killing of 22-year-old Haley Anderson is being held at a court in Managua, Nicaragua.

Trump says next year’s G-7 won’t be held at his resort, after all

Accused of using the presidency to enrich himself, the president announced a rare backtrack on Twitter on Saturday night.

In bracing terms, Trump invokes war’s human toll to defend his policies

In arguing that there must be an end to “endless wars” in Afghanistan and more recently in Syria, President Trump has given graphic accounts of distraught widows and disfigured soldiers in terms rarely, if ever, heard from a president.

American couple’s death in Dominican Republic not from poisoned alcohol, FBI says

The FBI ruled out poisoned alcohol as the cause of two American tourists’ deaths in the Dominican Republic in May, bolstering the country’s findings that a spate of tourist deaths this year were not the result of foul play.

Sanders returns to the trail with a major rally: ‘To put it bluntly, I am back’

Sanders returns to the trail with a major rally: ‘To put it bluntly, I am back’

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Nanny gets 20 years for sexually abusing child, having his baby

A former live-in nanny has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for repeatedly sexually abusing a Florida child. She later gave birth to the boy’s son.

Ex-salon chief alleges Wynn Resorts spied at his new job

A former beauty salon director who went public about sexual misconduct allegations against casino mogul Steve Wynn nearly two years ago is suing Wynn Resorts and company executives, alleging they invaded his privacy and spied on him at his next job in a bid to undercut his accounts.

Head of Arnold Worldwide makes an abrupt exit

Arnold’s parent company confirmed Kiran Smith’s departure, but declined to say much about it.

Clinton e-mail probe finds no deliberate mishandling of classified information

The report appears to represent a final and anticlimactic chapter in a controversy that overshadowed the 2016 presidential campaign.

Mattis mocks Trump’s bone spurs and love of fast food

Jim Mattis, the former defense secretary, departed from his usual reticence about President Trump and mocked his former boss in a speech Thursday night that made fun of Trump’s bone spur diagnosis during the Vietnam War and his love for fast food.

Wisconsin students walk out to protest racial slur firing

Students at a Wisconsin high school skipped class Friday and marched through the streets of the state capital to protest the firing of a black security guard who was terminated for repeating a racial slur while telling a student not to call him that word.

After deadly shooting, Pittsburgh synagogue plans reopening

Leaders of the Pittsburgh synagogue where worshippers were fatally shot last year want to rebuild and renovate the building, turning it into what they hope will be a “center for Jewish life in the United States” and a symbol against hatred.

Climate has Jane Fonda picking up where she left off in the 1970s

With fellow actor Sam Waterston, Jane Fonda was one of 17 climate protesters — many of them white and gray-haired — arrested for alleged unlawful demonstration Friday.


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